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aaronsw comments on Open Thread, December 1-15, 2012 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: aaronsw 01 December 2012 02:40:54PM 2 points [-]

That's a good explanation of how to do Solomonoff Induction, but it doesn't really explain why. Why is a Kolmgorov complexity prior better than any other prior?